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I.

10.XI [1921]

Comrade Radchenko!

Do get a precise arrival date for Lezhava—(not hysteria from Krasin, but) a definite date.

We shall have to, in my view, refuse Krasin if he responds with hysteria.

We cannot drag this out indefinitely.

When did you send the text (resolution on the Tsentrosoyuz [Central Union of Cooperatives] and its participation in Foreign Trade) to London? to Berlin? When was it received there? When was the reply and review received?

Lenin.

1 Apparently the following preliminary resolution of the Council of Labour and Defence from October 5, 1921 on the Tsentrosoyuz is meant: "Entrust the Import Commission of the Council of Labour and Defence under the chairmanship of Comrade Frumkin with the invitation of representatives from Tserabkoop, NKVT and VSNKh to discuss in detail the question of the necessity of purchases at border points and abroad using Soviet currency and the establishment of such an order so that these transactions could be conducted without any delays"... The final decision on granting the Tsentrosoyuz the right to participate in foreign trade was adopted after the agreement reached between A. M. Lezhava, who had returned from London, L. M. Khinchuk and N. A. Bogdanov; the agreement was approved by the Council of Labour and Defence on December 2, 1921.

26953

23.XI. 1921

Comrade Radchenko!

Re: Your № 4821.

Do not forget, upon Comrade Lezhava's arrival, to work out a detailed instruction (concerning relations with trade unions and the Reds and the Amsterdamers—i.e., the Yellows), and then work out reporting: how many times, to which trade unions did the foreign trade representatives appeal in which countries.

I shall expect a reply and report within 1—1½ months.

FOREIGN TRADE

Lenin.